Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 45

Then suddenly some one put his arm round my waist-'

Who acts: one · What happens: put · To what, where: arm

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 put	advmod
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 one	det
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arm	nmod:poss
7	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 waist	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 waist	nmod:poss
10	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	some one	rain's arm			then	round my waist	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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